The applicant, convicted of first-degree murder in 2008 for an offence committed in 2004, brought a threshold screening application under the faint hope clause to reduce his parole ineligibility period.
The court applied the pre-2011 standard of 'reasonable prospect of success' based on the date of the offence.
Considering the applicant's positive institutional conduct, low risk of violent recidivism, and sincere remorse, the court found a reasonable prospect that a jury would reduce his parole ineligibility and ordered a jury to be empaneled.
